Kaervek the burninator

Commander / EDH

Grind

Land (38)

• 1x Badlands
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Flamekin Village
• 1x Foreboding Ruins
• 1x Hanweir Battlements  ^Meld
• 1x Lavaclaw Reaches
• 10x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Shadowblood Ridge
• 1x Shivan Gorge
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 8x Swamp
• 1x Tomb of Urami
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Enchantment (11)

• 1x Curse of Bloodletting
• 1x Dictate of the Twin Gods
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Furnace of Rath
• 1x Glistening Oil
• 1x Havoc Festival
• 1x Manabarbs
• 1x Outpost Siege
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Rite of the Raging Storm
• 1x War's Toll

Sorcery (16)

• 1x Ambition's Cost
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Cathartic Reunion
• 1x Crux of Fate
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Mana Geyser
• 1x Mob Rule
• 1x Promise of Power
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Repay in Kind
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Syphon Mind
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Creature (13)

• 1x Bloodgift Demon
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Dragon Mage
• 1x Godo, Bandit Warlord
• 1x Heartless Hidetsugu
• 1x Indulgent Tormentor
• 1x Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs
• 1x Oblivion Sower
• 1x Pilgrim's Eye
• 1x Sepulchral Primordial
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
• 1x Vampire Nighthawk

Commander (1)

Artifact (13)

• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Grafted Exoskeleton
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Whip of Erebos
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Instant (8)

• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Comet Storm
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Reiterate
• 1x Scour from Existence
• 1x Skeletal Scrying
• 1x Tainted Strike
• 1x Terminate

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The main goal here is low life totals!
Typically you only want to cast Kaervek the Merciless once- late game after your opponents have burned their resources, ideally you have Lightning Greaves or Swiftfoot Boots or something.

if you can get infect on kaervek late game using Grafted Exoskeleton or Glistening Oil then you can kill opponents with 10 damage.

notable omissions:
Painful Quandary i don't like playing against this card and don't have a copy.
Wound Reflection on the to-aquire list if i keep this deck assembled together for a month or more.

any suggestions appreciated! I think the mana curve is way too high. So tips to lower the curve and make the deck more consistent are appeciated. I still want to run some of these high-mana cards that are synergestic with the burninating we are trying to do, but average CMC of 4 is just too high.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 45 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.10
Tokens	Demon X/X B, Lightning Rager, Ogre 3/3 R, Urami